DEFINING TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES

 

THIS WAS ONE OF OUR FIRST CLASSES, AND HERE WE HAVE SOME INTERESTING POINTS ABOUT TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES.

DEFINING TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES

 

1.-How many types of resources are there?

There are also digital and analog resources, analog resources such as textbooks, the overhead projector, and the videocassette recorder (VCR) are still used extensively in both corporate and educational settings, and resources like videocassettes, multimedia, curriculum materials, professional books, digital video disks, and CD-ROM”

Analog media are also still in widespread use in higher education, chalkboards, whiteboards, and overhead projectors serve a valuable function in enabling instructors to generate verbal and visual cues spontaneously to supplement lectures

2.-How are resourced appropriately used?

  The term appropriate is used to modify resources to indicate that the hardware and software used in education should be selected with consideration of their suitability for and compatibility with educational goals. They should be selected through a process that meets professional standards and, on the positive side, encourages the use of “media that emphasize the diversity of our society as a multicultural community.” 

These meanings of appropriate pertain to educational use in general, for example, the selection of materials for a school media-center collection or a corporate resource-center collection. When the resources are being considered for use as part of an instructional lesson or program, other issues come to the fore.

3.-How have the evolution of resources and emerging technologies affected the educational field?

 Resources can be used to facilitate learning because they are specifically designed for learning purposes. These are usually called “instructional materials or resources.” other resources exist as part of the normal, everyday world, but can be discovered, applied, and used for learning purposes.

Resources are sources of support for learning, including support systems and instructional materials and environments. Resources can include whatever is available to help individuals learn and perform competently resources play an integral role in facilitating learning and improving performance.

All these changes have significantly affected everyone, especially those who were accustomed to working and studying on the traditional dais, all this has been for them a technological revolution, now for everything is used and technological resources are needed.

4.-How digital have tools changed the landscape of educational technology?

The early identification and the ongoing identity crises in the field of educational technology are inextricably connected with the emerging technologies of the day.  If  history  is  any  indicator,  educational  technology will continue to maintain a central focus on the use of emerging technology resources to improve learning, have totally changed the whole landscape because since the use of the internet and new technologies began to be introduced, it was something new and novel for everyone, although the use of the internet has always been expensive because it has become a necessity to have to hire such services, both for school tools and for work tools

5.-According to the reading, how are settings and people used as resources?

The setting in which learning and performance take place is internal or external, simple or complex, the ability to organize it appropriately is essential for educational technology professionals.

These people have advanced knowledge and experience dealing with specialized learning resources. They are often used when the knowledge and experience of the facilitator and/or learners need to be augmented with the advanced knowledge and understanding that these specialists can provide.

We take from each environment the tools that are useful to us for the development of our activities and tasks in the same way as people, people share their knowledge and the use of their resources, that way we all share information about how we use resources and how we apply them.

 

 

6.-What ethical issues are to be considered in the use of resources?

Issues such as cost, accessibility, and equitable allocation of resources have become increasingly important in recent years. A central ethical concern for educational technology professionals is the effort to ensure equitable access to resources for all learners.

7.-What assumptions mentioned by the author have changed after the pandemic?

 For me many things have changed after the pandemic, although we are still in a pandemic, the use of technological resources has increased, and many people decided to stay at home and continue studying at a distance, for reasons of practicality or time, and with that, we have had to learn to make better use of electronic devices no longer because we like it but because it has become a necessity

Resources can take the form of the tools, materials, devices, people, and settings that learners interact with to improve learning and performance. Historically, the identity of the field is intertwined with the use of the emerging technologies of any given era. In the latter half of the 20th century, the field grew beyond the earlier, simpler, resource-driven conception of educational technology.

8.- What aspects are you disagree with?

 I really do not disagree with any point, what I would like is for more federal funds to be available for all those people who really can not have access to all the technological resources that we have because that limits the learning of many people in the world, that would be great.